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"Geno is living out his final days in a nursing home, bored, curmudgeonly, and struggling to connect with his nursing assistant, Angel, who he sees as being different from him in every way possible, and unable to understand him in any way. Perhaps no one really can, since Geno has been telling everyone who will listen that he's not just Geno -- in fact, he's lived many past lives, dating back 1000 years, and since that first life in Seville, Spain,...
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Who is Malone? Just a little while ago he was a cop. That was before the two punks and their girl hit town. That was before they boosted a payroll and shot down a man and took his nine-year-old daughter as insurance to cover their getaway. Now he's just a man. Scared. Not for himself, that would be easy. But for his child, the only thing in the world he loves enough to make him play ball with the kind of scum he's hated all his life.
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New Yorker contributor and decade-long staffer Matt Dellinger uses the controversy surrounding Interstate 69 as a lens through which to examine middle America's current political, social, and economic landscape, including hot-button issues like NAFTA and the country's troubled infrastructure. If completed, I-69 will stretch from Canada to Mexico through Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. In the works...
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Tim Corrigan is up to his eye-patch in scandal, intrigue, and wide-open murderThe banners waved, the crowd cheered, the reporters rushed toward the candidate as he made his way to the speaker's platform. And then a shot rang out, the candidate clutched at his chest, screamed, and fell dead. It was a pretty kettle of fish for Tim Corrigan, the crime solver with the eye-patch and the stainless steel nervous system. The suspects included the candidate's...
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For years, Inspector Richard Queen had been outshone by his writer son. Now, with Ellery away, he had a case all his own-or did he? The verdict had been accidental death, and only the victim's nurse had seen the one thing that made it murder. Recruiting a senior citizens corps of retired cops, Dick Queen tracked a murderer-and found himself courting his only witness! No wonder he kept muttering, "What's Ellery going to say … ?"
6) The Poser
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All his life, Giovanni Bernini has possessed an uncanny gift: he can imitate anyone he meets. Honed by his mother at a young age, the talent catapults him from small-town obscurity to stardom. As Giovanni describes it, 'No one's disguise is perfect. There is in every person, no matter how graceful, a seam, a thread curling out of them . . . When pulled by the right hands, it will unravel the person entire. 'As his fame grows, Giovanni encounters a...
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For the past decade, an audacious program called Football Dreams has held tryouts for millions of young boys across Africa, looking for soccer's next superstars. Led by the Spanish scout who helped launch Lionel Messi's career and funded by the desert kingdom of Qatar, the program chooses just a handful of boys each year to train to become professionals; the process is one thousand times more selective than getting into Harvard University. In an extraordinary...
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Scott Cunningham's classic introduction to Wicca is about how to live life magically, spiritually, and wholly attuned with nature. It is a book of sense and common sense, not only about magick but also about religion and one of the most critical issues of today: how to achieve the much-needed and wholesome relationship with our Earth. Cunningham presents Wicca as it is today: a gentle, Earth-oriented religion dedicated to the Goddess and God. Wicca...
10) Losers, Weepers
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An exciting novel by the master of mystery. Some men retire on a hundred grand-or buy their wives mink coats with days of the week sewn in the lining ... or fly to Rio for a good cup of coffee-but not Jim Morgan. Jim had a hundred thousand all right-neatly packed in stacks of fifties-only someone had made an expensive mistake. A mistake that put him on the run for his money-as well as his life.
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Where is Harlan James?He is the indicted, bail-jumping leader of Banbury's militant Black Hearts who has gone underground … but whose rage, still heard on tape, is edging the city towards interracial terror.Harlan James calls for violence-for black protests, demonstrations, drastic political action against the city's white leaders.But did he also call for-or commit-murder?It is a top priority job for Mike McCall, a new breed of crime-fighter, whose...
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Many authors have traveled and explored the out-of-doors, both in life and then in their books, proving themselves stalwart, audacious, even heroic; Andrew Farkas is not among them. He is brave enough to admit that the outdoors isn't for him. Instead, in these essays Farkas reports on his bold explorations of a very different territory: the in-of-doors, the waiting rooms, kitchens, malls, bars, theaters, roadside motel rooms, and other places that...
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Hamilton is crushed by a secret so shameful that it is beyond bearing.
His heir is dead; his daughter has gone insane with grief. His dear wife, Eliza, now shudders at his touch.
He never intended to send his son to his death. That wasn't in his plans. And his wife may never forgive him.
As Hamilton struggles to save his marriage and his family, his political opponent, Aaron Burr, threatens to topple the nation. The nation which Hamilton had risked...
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The Road to Sparta is the story of the 153-mile run from Athens to Sparta that inspired the marathon and saved democracy, as told-and experienced-by ultra-marathoner and New York Times bestselling author Dean Karnazes. In 490 BCE, Pheidippides ran for thirty-six hours straight from Athens to Sparta to seek help in defending Athens from a Persian invasion in the Battle of Marathon. In doing so, he saved the development of Western civilization and inspired...
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Norb Vonnegut didn't realize how close he skirted to nonfiction when he was writing his spectacular debut Top Producer. Penned before tumultuous revelations and scandals rocked the financial world in late 2008, Vonnegut's novel depicts, with an insider's solid knowledge, the tricks that the industry's real top producers pull in their frenzied pursuit of billions. Now Vonnegut sets his electrifying follow-up in the high-rolling world of hedge funds,...
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Ellery Queen and Sherlock Holmes match wits to reveal the identity of history's most infamous killerEllery Queen and Sherlock Holmes are the undisputed masters of analytical deduction-their talents and methods strikingly, almost uncannily, alike. Through the strange interlocking of events past and present, the two celebrated detectives meet to focus their razor-sharp intellects-and their brilliant powers of observation-on the mystery of … Jack the...
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What if you could have a conversation with the most successful person you can think of? Say, with the richest man in the world. Or the CEO of the most recognized brands on the planet. Or the best football coach of all time. What might that person tell you about getting to the top? About being a leader? What if you got to hear from all of them? No Fear of Failure relays a dozen such candid conversations the kind that shape how future leaders think....
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Trick I-The first thing to vanish is a worthless doorstop. Then, in the twinkling of an eye, goes its rich and elderly owner. And, for the grand finale, both reappear-each as dead as the other. Trick II-From the House of Darkness issues more bafflement. In total darkness and from a distance of twelve feet, four bullets are pumped within an inch of each other into a spectator's back-a feat utterly impossible to perform yet brazenly and undeniably done....
19) Lions: A Novel
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Bonnie Nadzam-author of the critically acclaimed, award-winning debut Lamb-returns with this scorching, haunting portrait of a rural community in a "living ghost town" on the brink of collapse, and the individuals who are confronted with either chasing their dreams or-against all reason-staying where they are. Lions is set on the high plains of Colorado, a nearly deserted place, steeped in local legends and sparse in population. Built to be a glorious...
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Living Wicca takes a philosophical look at the questions, practices, and differences within Witchcraft. Learn the meanings of over 120 Wiccan symbols and how you can magically use them. Discover the power of Wiccan prayers throughout the day and how you can use them to make yourself aware that the God and Goddess are everywhere. Learn how to create your own rituals and symbols, develop a book of shadows, and even become a high priest or priestess....